The biggest concern that Switch owners had with the Switch Lite are the analog sticks. The original Switch‘s Joy-Con controllers have analog sticks that move on its own, an issue that became problematic this year and is called “Joy-Con Drift”. The concern is that the same analog sticks that drift could be put into the Switch Lite. Because the Switch Lite doesn’t use detachable Joy-Cons, the problem could be made worse with analog sticks that are embedded with the console itself.
Multiple Switch Lite owners, such as Spawn Wave, have taken the Switch Lite apart to examine the analog sticks up close. They have discovered that the analog sticks for the Switch Lite have a different part number, but unfortunately, the analog sticks are exactly the same as the Joy-Con’s. If the problem still exists, we probably won’t find out until people have been playing their Switch Lites for a good while, so it could take a year or two. The good news is that Nintendo is fixing the Joy-Con drift for free, regardless of warranty status, so if the problem were to surface with the Switch Lite, Nintendo’s response should be the same. You can see Spawn Wave’s findings in a video down below.
oh NO!!!
Yeah, this is terrible design if it still the same, this issue should of been fixed, or don’t release the lite version till this problem gets fixed, but now they have two issues to worry about.
Switch games are great but the hardware and the need to buy multiple things outside of the console is a bummer on the price, thanks to the lack luster memory, I have to spend money to get a 256 GB microSD card on top of it, and for protection, I have to buy a screen protector and a case for it. Nintendo knows how to make money by making your spend more and more if you want a secured switch.
Don’t forget that if you want a wired connection that you have to buy an LAN Adapter.
Unfortunately this is true. Without a LAN Adapter some online games are unplayable
As a potential possible Switch lite owner in a couple weeks, I definitely find this concerning. So long as Nintendo handles issues that arise no matter the warranty status, it’s not so big a deal.
It’s more concerning however that Ninty wouldn’t nip this in the bud before it takes off as a major problem for the Switches life span.
A little surprised about this but it makes me wonder if perhaps the drift is a bit overblown ? It happened to me though so I totally relate to anyone concerned about this.
I’d say it’s more along the lines of by the time enough people started to complain about the drifting issue, it was already too late to fix it for the Switch Lite. After all, they do have release deadlines to make and the Switch Lite was most likely on such a deadline.
That & they’d most likely fix the issue if it arises for the Switch Lite free of charge (warranty or not) so they didn’t see the need to fix the issue any time soon.
This isn’t entirely accurate, is it? I’m pretty sure Spawn Wave said they *look* the same, but that he doesn’t know if the materials and everything are still the same, so they *could* be more durable. Though that was in his (New) Switch tear down iirc. And the free Joy Con fixing does not apply to all regions, but is mainly a US thing, isn’t it?
Correct, as of July 2019 joy con fixes from Nintendo are limited to US.
it’s fairly shady, if they don’t start allowing other major territories to get same treatment.
I think it’s a case of time will tell.
Surely Nintendo aren’t that silly and a delay would of been inevitable, I picked up a lite and it’s a lovely piece of hardware.
All Nintendo needed (and need) to do is say that they’ve made an improvement to the design of the sticks so they won’t drift. Thing is, Nintendo won’t say that, because it means implying that there was a problem with the original Joy-Con (which there definitely was – indeed, there may still be, I don’t know). So, it’s a waiting game. I’d say if it’s exactly the same we’ll already know a couple of months from now – some drift issues showed up pretty quickly with the originals.
If the Switch Lites start having multiple issues with drift, Nintendo will have a much bigger issue in whole due to it being a major design flaw in the system.
it’s not like they don’t know the thumbsticks are a majorly important component…
I’m keeping my WiiU!!
Good idea to purchase any Virtual Console games you want from Eshop before that goes down.
eventually there won’t be an Eshop how we remember it, just like the Rewards program, which imo doesn’t exist anymore.
Clickbait article written by idiots who don’t know anything about the subject matter! As Spawn Wave pointed out, they might have indeed fixed the drift problem, by changing the formula of the carbon film. Just because the design of the joycons is the same, doesn’t mean the drifting problem still remains.
lol…
I’ve been watching spawn wave for a while, he said they look similar to the Analog Sticks in the new Joy-Con, which are different from the ones found in the launch switch that where having the drifting problem. You can even see as over time thay increased the part number by one letter.
Yeah, that’s a definite issue.